Aegean Sea

overextend their love for something small but charming. In the Aegean Sea, Poseidon and Aphrodite just welcomed two beautiful twin babies, however they were conjoined. The right side of the baby is name Iris. She is beautiful just like her mother, with her hair blonde like the blazing sun awakening in the early morning, burning with intesity. She also has striking eyes that are greener than grass, and striking ivory white teeth. She was given the honor to be goddess of joy due to the combination of her beautiful smile and laugh. On the other side there is Keta, also beautiful but in a different sense. Keta has deep black hair, dark brown eyes, razor sharp teeth and a forked serpent-like tongue. She was given…

as thousands of sea coasts, imposing mountains, caves, gorges, lakes and rivers. (Antoniou, 2013) Greece’s mainland is divided into six geographical regions. Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) is a central region of Greece, and one of the most mountainous. Thessaly…

"Yashiro Shrine is dedicated to Watatsumi-no-Mikoto, god of the sea. […] the inhabitants should be devout worshippers of this god. They are forever praying for calm seas…" (4, par. 2, chp.1) The islanders are so gracious for the ocean, that they made a shrine of a sea god to represent the seas that surround the island. The islanders have been devoted to their faith in order to receive a sense of reassurance. They pray in hopes to please the sea god that they worship in order to gain pleasant…

Dangers of Plastic Can Rings Over 100,000 marine creatures die per year due to improper disposal of plastic six-pack rings. (Plastic Statistics 2012) Great numbers of these plastic rings are littered each day, serving as a dangerous threat to the Earth. They are provoking pollution, as well as killing off dozens of species. Actions need to be taken to prevent this. 800 billion pounds of trash fill the oceans. (Harrison 2015)A large contributor to this amount of this garbage is soda can rings.…

Adrift in a Moral Sea Life often throws people some difficult challenges where there ends up being more than one right course of action. Everyone has their own different morals that they have acquired through out their life and this helps them decide which ethical perspective that they believe in. One instance, of where you can look at multiple ethical perspectives to solve a problem comes from the essay “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Harden, which is about being shipwrecked in the middle of the…

consciousness(99)” . The island throws obstacles at these children and they have no other choice then to change from the innocent juveniles into ruthless savages. This displays an example of how the island is changing jack, he feels as if he needs to lose the qualities that the outside society has helped him develop,u and become this savage. Being confined on an Island makes him emphasize which traits is best fit for his search of a way of this island. Prospero’s influence over the narrative,…

particles into the ocean. Most of the sources of the marine pollution are land base activities. Marine pollution has numerous effects on marine animals, plants and human. Therefore, it is important to understand the cause and effect of the ocean pollution, and what people can do to solve this problem. The source of marine pollution is plentiful, about eighty percent of them come from land-based activities. Some enter the ocean directly, some pollute ocean indirectly. The first pollutant that…

As time’s clock runs its course, we often find ourselves nostalgic of times that could have been or were. Staring out across an ocean, laughing around a table filled with close friends, or taking a long walk at night humans seek reflection and question if we have proven ourselves worthy. Similar to Walcott in his poem, people begin to reflect when faced with reminders of their past. The magnitude of the narrator’s experience is clearly portrayed in his nostalgic tone and repetition of…

“Dover Beach”: In his “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold employs images related to the ocean to establish a theme relating to the cyclical nature of human life. Specifically, he refers to the continuation of misery throughout an individual’s life. This allusion to cycles is supported throughout the poem through the use of tidal imagery. For example, he refers to the French coast and how “the light gleams and is gone” (3-4) This is significant as light often works as a symbol of hope. Therefore, this…

Ocean Pollution Over half of sea turtles have ingested an outrageous amount of plastic and lots of them have even died from the marine pollution that's getting put into the ocean. A lot of animals are getting killed/injured by ocean pollution and its not just litter that's harming them. Many chemicals can also be released from runoff or even marine mammal carcasses. One of the animals that is getting harmed by the litter is sea turtles. A large amount of sea turtles are getting killed by eating…